With Donald Trump and his lot dominating the daily headlines, journalism nowadays seems to be stuck in an infernal loop of attention-seeking politicians and attention-giving media. It's far better to go out into the world and tell what you've heard, seen and found, Hans Durrer admonishes us.

"I love the rhythm section," writes photographer Deirdre O'Callaghan and her love unmistakeably shows in her pictures of famous and less famous drummers, collected in The Drum Thing. Hans Durrer read the book, steered by the photographic as well as the textual observations.

Photography Reinvented is the title of an exhibition now on show at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exposition opened in September 30, 2016 and will continue till January 29, 2017. It shows the photo collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, which seems haphazard but — one way or another — possesses its own beauty. As impressive is the book publication of the same name, edited by Sarah Greenough. It fails, however, as Hans Durrer here concludes, to clarify what exactly binds the artists and their work together.

One of the reasons behind the success of offshore radio stations in the 1960s — at least in Great Britain — is the restricted air time made available for recorded music by its producers. Derek Lamb here tells us more about the importance of 'needle time'.

Twelve years ago René de Bruin wrote an article for our journal about Roy Orbison's MGM catalogue. At that time he expected a speedy arrival of a remastered CD-box. He had to wait till the end of last year. The results, however, surpass his wildest expectations, as a brilliantly remastered LP- and CD-set now rewrites Orbison's recording history for the years between 1965 and 1973.